Based off the fuzziness of the video feed as it approaches the helicopter, is it safe to assume the Russians are using some sort of barrage jamming to try to mitigate drone attacks? Although that shouldn't prevent the drone itself from transmitting video back to the controller.
Stop trying to inject blockchains into everything, fuck.
Lol way to get triggered by a single word in a well written, comprehensive response and have a tantrum.
Paris is Burning is the first queer movie I ever watched, definitely still recommended
Who has killed more Israeli hostages, Hamas or Israel?
The tutorial series by DivRhino was really helpful for me -- https://divrhino.com/articles/rest-api-docker-go-fiber-from-scratch -- she has several tutorials that build on each other.
PRECISION-GUIDED weapons first appeared in their modern form on the battlefield in Vietnam a little over 50 years ago. As armed forces have strived ever since for accuracy and destructiveness, the cost of such weapons has soared. America’s gps-guided artillery shells cost $100,000 a time. Because smart weapons are expensive, they are scarce. That is why European countries ran out of them in Libya in 2011. Israel, more eager to conserve its stockpiles than avoid collateral damage, has rained dumb bombs on Gaza. What, though, if you could combine precision and abundance?
For the first time in the history of warfare that question is being answered on the battlefields of Ukraine. Our report this week shows how first-person view (FPV) drones are mushrooming along the front lines. They are small, cheap, explosives-laden aircraft adapted from consumer models, and they are making a soldier’s life even more dangerous. These drones slip into tank turrets or dugouts. They loiter and pursue their quarry before going for the kill. They are inflicting a heavy toll on infantry and armour.
The war is also making FPV drones and their maritime cousins ubiquitous. January saw 3,000 verified FPV drone strikes. This week Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, created the Unmanned Systems Force, dedicated to drone warfare. In 2024 Ukraine is on track to build 1m-2m drones. Astonishingly, that will match Ukraine’s reduced consumption of shells (which is down because Republicans in Congress are shamefully denying Ukraine the supplies it needs).
The drone is not a wonder weapon—no such thing exists. It matters because it embodies big trends in war: a shift towards small, cheap and disposable weapons; the increasing use of consumer technology; and the drift towards autonomy in battle. Because of these trends, drone technology will spread rapidly from armies to militias, terrorists and criminals. And it will improve not at the budget-cycle pace of the military-industrial complex, but with the break-things urgency of consumer electronics.
Basic FPV drones are revolutionarily simple. The descendants of racing quadcopters, built from off-the-shelf components, they can cost as little as several hundred dollars. FPV drones tend to have short ranges, carry small payloads and struggle in bad weather. For those reasons they will not (yet) replace artillery. But they can still do a lot of damage. In one week last autumn Ukrainian drones helped destroy 75 Russian tanks and 101 big guns, among much else. Russia has its own fpv drones, though they tend to target dugouts, trenches and soldiers. Drones help explain why both sides find it so hard to mount offensives.
The exponential growth in the number of Russian and Ukrainian drones points to a second trend. They are inspired by and adapted from widely available consumer technology. Not only in Ukraine but also in Myanmar, where rebels have routed government forces in recent days, volunteers can use 3D printers to make key components and assemble airframes in small workshops. Unfortunately, criminal groups and terrorists are unlikely to be far behind the militias.
This reflects a broad democratisation of precision weapons. In Yemen the Houthi rebel group has used cheap Iranian guidance kits to build anti-ship missiles that are posing a deadly threat to commercial vessels in the Red Sea. Iran itself has shown how an assortment of long-range strike drones and ballistic missiles can have a geopolitical effect that far outweighs their cost. Even if the kit needed to overcome anti-drone jamming greatly raises the cost of the weapons, as some predict, they will still count as transformationally cheap.
The reason goes back to consumer electronics, which propel innovation at a blistering pace as capabilities accumulate in every product cycle. That poses problems of ethics as well as obsolescence. There will not always be time to subject novel weapons to the testing that Western countries aim for in peacetime and that is required by the Geneva Conventions.
Innovation also leads to the last trend, autonomy. Today, fpv drone use is limited by the supply of skilled pilots and by the effects of jamming, which can sever the connection between a drone and its operator. To overcome these problems, Russia and Ukraine are experimenting with autonomous navigation and target recognition. Artificial intelligence has been available in consumer drones for years and is improving rapidly.
A degree of autonomy has existed on high-end munitions for years and on cruise missiles for decades. The novelty is that cheap microchips and software will let intelligence sit inside millions of low-end munitions that are saturating the battlefield. The side that masters autonomy at scale in Ukraine first could enjoy a temporary but decisive advantage in firepower—a necessary condition for any breakthrough.
Western countries have been slow to absorb these lessons. Simple and cheap weapons will not replace big, high-end platforms, but they will complement them. The Pentagon is belatedly embarking on Replicator, an initiative to build thousands of low-cost drones and munitions able to take on China’s enormous forces. Europe is even further behind. Its ministers and generals increasingly believe that they could face another major European war by the end of the decade. If so, investment in low-end drones needs to grow urgently. Moreover, ubiquitous drones will require ubiquitous defences—not just on battlefields but also in cities at peace. Kalashnikovs in the skies
Intelligent drones will also raise questions about how armies wage war and whether humans can control the battlefield. As drones multiply, self-co-ordinating swarms will become possible. Humans will struggle to monitor and understand their engagements, let alone authorise them.
America and its allies must prepare for a world in which rapidly improving military capabilities spread more quickly and more widely. As the skies over Ukraine fill with expendable weapons that marry precision and firepower, they serve as a warning. Mass-produced hunter-killer aircraft are already reshaping the balance between humans and technology in war. ■
I dont think the covering of webcams with tape on windows is necessarily about a malware or an exploit watching you, but more about windows itself monitoring and selling off everything you do.
Do you recommend any resources about this? I'd be interested in learning how to implement this.
Damn! Congrats to her!
I'm guessing blood that's blood on her bib, I'm gonna assume something chaffed enough to start bleeding towards the end.
The big issue I see is states that don't want to implement social housing programs just shipping their unhousedpeoples to states that do and overwhelming the systems created.
While I normally agree on #2, it doesnt really apply to Tailscale. Tailscale isn't completely free, they have a free tier to generate business but it's limited to 3 users per tailnet. Also its cryptographically impossible for them to snoop on your traffic.
Can you make the domain somehow personalized to you so you can say its for an online resume to further your education and employability? If you happen to host other personal stuff that won't cost you anything extra, just make sure you have a fancy looking CV at the root.
I just set up a security camera for my dad's office: zoneminder running the webcam and tailscale for access anywhere.
I'm glad it helped!
I recently ran into the same issue flashing firmware on a Cisco Aironet 3700, the command I ended up using was sudo in.tftpd -L (directory) --verbose --permissive -s
I was running TFTPD on Fedora 38 on my laptop, though. I'm pretty sure I had the same issue you did, I think changing the command to in.tftpd fixed it, but I could be misremembering as this was about 6 months ago.
Isn't the launch of Luis Branco 300 ft into the air considered the start of Spain's space program?
Was I just whooshed myself? Damn 😂
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Cool maps, but it looks like they spent too much money on a really inconvenient user interface
Proxmox running TrueNAS and NextCloud or Nextcloud on TrueNAS via Docker?
As the title states, how would you set it up? I've got an HP EliteDesk G5, what are the strengths and weaknesses of either:
- ProxMox with one VM running TrueNAS and another VM running Nextcloud
- TrueNAS on bare metal with Nextcloud running in docker
- Some other setup
I'd like to be able to easily expand and backup the storage available to Nextcloud as needed and I'd also like the ability to add additional VMs/containers/services as needed
What do you use to manage operating system images for installation on new laptops and workstations?
I'm wanting to create a centralized repository to keep base images of operating systems to be installed on new laptops or workstations bought/used in my household with my local CA already installed, configured to authenticate with my local FreeIPA instance, network configurations already configured, etc.
What do you all use to accomplish this? I'm only free/libre/open source software for my home lab, so that's a requirement as well.
Ideally I'd like to be able to buy a computer, flash the latest and greatest from my repository onto a bootable thumb drive, install onto the computer, and be ready to go without any further configuration.
Installing NIC in HP EliteDesk 800 G3 Mini
I recently bought a refurbished HP EliteDesk mini to act as a server in my homelab. It, unfortunately, only has 1 Ethernet port. Does anyone have any experience in adding another Ethernet port to this system? It has 3 Display ports, which I definitely don't need, so space-wise I was thinking of replacing a couple of them, but I'm not familiar with the process.
Any advice? Is this even doable?